Is Bullying As Widespread And Problematic As We Keep Hearing?

As a parent, you want your kids to have a happy, healthy childhood — so what do you do when your kids are being bullied? What if they themselves are the bullies at school? Is bullying the epidemic that the media is making it out to be? How do we, as parents, put a stop to it?

"It's been around for years," Nathan says. "What has changed is the way that we're much more aware of it and unfortunately, the number of kids who have been picked on and bullied, and have taken their own lives."

12. What? This is my outfit now.

13. Pure joy.

You have no idea how deeply you can love and how much you can bear until you hold your baby for the first time, cry with your child over their first broken heart and wait for hours on end at a hospital murmuring every prayer you have ever known.